first, rebecca brooks, the head of newspaper operations on the other side of the pond resigned. and late this afternoon, we learned the ceo of dow jones, which publishes murdoch's "the wall street journal" here in america is stepping down. can murdoch himself stop the scandal completely overwhelming his empire? findly, kumar, as in harold and kumar, is leaving the white house for a recurring role on "how i met your mother." that's the sideshow. first, who's holding up the agreement? congressman chris van holland is a democrat from maryland. he joins me now. he was in on the biden talks when those were the center of the debt ceiling negotiations. congressman, let me start with this. we know, i guess at this point, how this is going to end, some sort of raise in the debt ceiling, some form of cuts, but not the grand bargain. do you feel as if your party politically is in a better position today than it was a week ago when these talks begin? >> chuck, i don't know exactly what the end game is going to be. it could play out the way you talked about. it could take another turn. i'm n